Coyotes howl throughout the hills around the secluded railroad location of Cliff, while the quiet chirp of crickets is silenced by the approaching horn of a BNSF manifest. Moments later, the roar of the manifest quickly blasts it’s way up and out of tunnel 7, along the cliff sides above the Tehachapi creek gorge below, and then disappears back into tunnel 8. All while under the soft light of a rising moon.